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LarmyOfLone ,

Now I want to see that movie. Guy becomes dragon, turns into politician.

LarmyOfLone ,

Lol I just realized this is basically the story of Dune (God Emperor of Dune)

LarmyOfLone ,

Much of it is a function of late stage capitalism and climate change. We know we can't change so we know we are doomed. The moral contract of society is completely broken.

My plan is to build a boat that is powered by solar panels. Generate enough electricity to move around the world and have power for making water, heat, cooking, air condition, my PC battle station, some greenhouse areas. Be able to build, maintain and repair everything myself and have enough spares to last until EOL. Just exit society, become an island and watch the nukes go off from the ocean. Welcome to !collapse

Probably humanity will muddle through somehow and after much genocide we'll learn.

LarmyOfLone ,

Thanks! I'm more concerned about the social democratic "leftists" though, ever since the "third way" it seems they have been completely captured all around the globe. Functionally this created the fertile ground for the fascism we see today. I'm not well educated how this ideological change is distributed, I can only infer it / speculate from the effects.

LarmyOfLone ,

I have prepared the sacrifices to Nyctelios so I should be good

LarmyOfLone ,

To allow eye contact for social interactions. If you want ubiquitous AR in real life that is what you need. This is an attempt to achieve this with current technology and it "almost" works / near miss / fails spectacularly.

LarmyOfLone OP ,

Cooler than the city by 16° celsius!

LarmyOfLone OP ,

Even just slightly more green would be nice. It might also a question of real estate costs in that area. And walking distance around the village. And climate. Really it's more like an old European city, not a village, but they probably needed a name to say it's different.

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations...

LarmyOfLone ,

I think the ideal sustainable chemical fuel would be propane generated through genetically engineered algae. Propane can easily be compressed into liquid and transported and it burns clean.

Have something like solar panels filled with photosynthetic algae producing propane that is constantly extracted as a gas. Once we have done the genetic engineering of a "steady state algae panel" it would be quite low tech to have these on your roof and store them to heat with in winter. Or use for specific large machines where batteries are not worth the embodied energy.

LarmyOfLone ,

True. But I'm thinking a bit in terms of "solar punk". Batteries and fuel cells require high tech materials and very complex global production lines for manufacture and supply of raw materials or instruments etc. It's a bit of a house of cards. So I'm trying to think how you can "democratize" the base of a local economy. Genetically engineering plants for bio fuel is one way. That allows third world countries or local cities to maintain civilization even if global trade collapses.

LarmyOfLone ,

We really should have insulated window blinds or shutters that easily / automatically close at night or in the winter.

LarmyOfLone ,

They are not really in style anymore in germany either.

LarmyOfLone ,

Thanks, good to hear!

LarmyOfLone ,

Which is why most cop shows function as authoritarian propaganda. They show an idealist fairy tale version that nonetheless creates this aspirational image of cops in mainstream culture. It gives cover to the true cop culture. Just like villains in movies are always just a bad apple that is corrupt and once eliminated all is well, when in real world the rules of the system is what breeds corruption. It's not meant to be, but it acts as authoritarian propaganda.

I love cop shows, they are my guilty pleasure, but one needs to be aware that this is fairy tale.

LarmyOfLone ,

Is there a good federated "one click" insta community replacement for discord yet? Or rather, what is the most likely to evolve into something like that? I looked into matrix chat and elements.

LarmyOfLone ,

We need banks that specifically are meant to allow the workers of a company to buy their company and turn it into a collective. Not that the workers can sell the shares but they own it in the sense that they can democratically determine how profits are spend and what managers are hired / elected. Just a loan which just requires printing a little more money which we do all the time.

That would solve so many inefficiencies and amoralities in the current economy.

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

LarmyOfLone ,

I've thought about this too but I'm not sure this would work. First you could hack the firmware of a cryptographically signed camera. I already read something about a camera like this that was hacked and the private key leaked. You could have an individual key for each camera and then revoke it maybe.

But you could also photograph a monitor or something like that, like a specifically altered camera lens.

Ultimately you'd probably need something like quantum entangled photon encoding to prove that the photons captured by the sensor were real photons and not fake photons. Like capturing a light field or capturing a spectrum of photons. Not sure if that is even remotely possible but it sounds cool haha.

LarmyOfLone ,

This is kinda scary. Sanctions are one thing, but do you really want your internet provider to investigate people and act like an intelligence service for the state?

LarmyOfLone ,

Do they require a phone number? I tried to sign up to gitlab (just to post bug reports!) but they required a phone number (which is linked to government ID).

LarmyOfLone ,

If you don't need anonymity you could just buy a domain with a single email and use your own email app SMTP. I think it's cheaper than most email providers.

LarmyOfLone ,

What are the chances this is politically motivated? What kind of radio station was it? Right wing talk radio?

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

LarmyOfLone ,

I'm not sure but these kinds of wasteful spendings are just "imaginary money" that sits around in virtual bank accounts being hoarded and doing nothing but when it's wasted like this actually gets spend for salaries etc. Basically all this money is generated in computers and an "inefficiency" until it's being used.

It's much worse when they buy up tons of real estate or apartments or buy up existing corporations to make them more "profitable".

LarmyOfLone ,

The problem is we can't keep the same resources waste up. Lower range and smaller cars is what is needed. The perfect car of the future would be a one-seater that is as small and light as a electric velomobile (~70kg). Build a few millions of them and replace all cars in a city with those. Ideally self driving and as a robo-taxi, but even without the self driving this would be good. Of course cars isn't really that high on the list for climate change.

But as a civilization we are simply not an intelligent species.

LarmyOfLone ,

Consider something like 50% bigger than a podbike.

3000 miles is not something we as a society should accommodate to travel by car. The whole problem is that everyone thinks we can keep doing the same lifestyle just with zero carbon. We simply can't. We need to change how we live and work.

LarmyOfLone ,

Yeah it's not a solution to everything. I imagine the standard "super light" robo taxi as a two seater with the seats facing each other. Without a driver seat you can redesign individual transport to be narrower which improves aerodynamics.

But yeah for families or cargo transport you still need larger vehicles. Or take two. And I also imagine this to be more of a "gap filler" besides public transport or bicycles. It would really require a pretty big redesign of how we live and work to reduce our energy and resource usage to zero.

LarmyOfLone ,

Yeah, the single biggest thing we could do is ban industrial meat production and regulate food production to be more local. But the overall scale of change needed is staggering. We're not going to do much really.

LarmyOfLone ,

Huh this video just dropped which is one possible solution to design a different work / live environment. If you imagine a village like that but large enough to have a school and some more amenities:
Building a village designed for people (not cars) near Phoenix

But you'd still want public transport, bikes and delivery vans. But in Europe you also get a lot of cargo quadricycles to deliver goods.

LarmyOfLone ,

I want a language that takes this and has a specification for the editor to prettify it

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LarmyOfLone ,

It's a bit worrying that the journalist doesn't point out that it's ALL chrome. Safari, Edge, they all use the chrome engine. A complete monopolization of web features. Most recently we've seen the problems with that in trying to ditch good innovations like jpegXL.

LarmyOfLone ,

Afaik Blink is a fork of WebKit. It's good there is some independent development but also safari is closed ecosystem.

LarmyOfLone ,

Yeah it's pretty bad and nobody talks about it. Nobody researches the effects of patents on our global civilization. I suspect the practical role of patents is to actually retard innovation - something gets improved or invented or most of the time just engineered to work better and monopolization or just paperwork makes it too expensive for wide spread adoption. This in turn helps prevents disruptive technology from making large scale investments obsolete - instead of having to adopt and improve your factories you can continue as before because any innovation will be slow and also priced to be around as expensive as existing solutions. Or the patent can just be bought. And even if an inventor has noble intentions, starting manufacturing yourself is a totally different skill set so like most startups often fails and then the patent gets sold off. Innovation becomes a commodity.

This is my logical conclusion but it's speculative. I suspect researching negative effects of patents is a somewhat "taboo" topic for scientists to research.

In regards to climate change this becomes... genocidal. We have hundreds of thousands of industrial processes that rely on fossil fuels or certain levels of energy. With all the before mentioned effects this basically made a timely response to climate change impossible. Every little improvement to existing processes is patented and maximized for profit. Basically we never had a chance.

LarmyOfLone ,

This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time | Robot Chicken - YouTube

LarmyOfLone ,

I believe small single seat robo-taxies would allow a lot of the gaps to be closed and resistance removed.

But more than this you need to plan cities to be smaller urban areas with high density that have everything you need in walking distance. Which also means "less efficiency" in the capitalist sense.

LarmyOfLone ,

Yawn, obviously privately owned monopoly would be bad. I can imagine China doing this well as a public utility.

LarmyOfLone ,

Why would China do this better?

China is ruled by a single party in an authoritarian regime. They have corruption and politicking but they still have remnants of a planned economy and can still make rational decisions for the benefit of their country. For example they have massive projects to build high speed rail and nuclear power.

The US can only make decisions for the benefit of profit maximization. That's overexaggerated of course but you get the gist.

Imagine a whole city converted to public transport, bicycles/quadricycles and robo-taxies to fill the gaps. They could be single seat the size of a velomobile (podbike is an interesting example) and only weigh 100kg and use like 250-500 watt to drive up to 50kmh. Or maybe two seats face to face so you have space to stretch your legs or put your groceries.

LarmyOfLone ,

They are not an unsolvable problem. What is your argument for this? And no I'm not watching the whole video lol

LarmyOfLone ,

Oh how funny, how clever! It's SELF EVIDENT they are impossible lol. Didn't think of that killer argument.

Obviously you're wrong because they already exist. They are just not yet good enough. I suspect you're some kind of religious nutjob who thinks there is something supernatural about human brains that computers can just never do lol.

LarmyOfLone ,

I’m not calling for a ban on autonomous vehicles. There are clear advantages to using AI, and it is irresponsible for people to call on a ban, or even a pause, on AI. But we need more government oversight to prevent the taking of unnecessary risks.

That is basically what I'm thinking. In an ideal world we'd run a "Manhattan project" to create a massive and open research project for self driving AI with different approaches that doesn't rely on profit seeking and short sighted corporations. I still see no rational arguments for stopping to develop and improve self driving cars. There is no theoretical or practical hurdle for it to become near flawless with enough work. Potentially eliminating hundreds of thousands of deaths and injury and also saving a lot of energy and resources.

And yeah most transportation should be trains and bicycles and a better concept for velomobiles, something more like the podbike. But self driving small, cheap and low energy robo-taxis would have incredible value. Most of all it can be shared between people to a much higher degree because it can drive itself to the next pickup without requiring a full time driver or space for one. It doesn't need the range because it can park and recharge autonomously while another vehicle in the fleet replaces it. All large metropolis should ban all cars and only allow robo taxis or special vehicles for delivery etc. With regulation and while avoiding a monopoly. The potential is huge.

But I guess the pseudo-religious hive mind is turning on AI.

LarmyOfLone ,

Just to add, as long as the roofs aren't damaged they are curved enough so rain drips off.

And while steel isn't a good insulator it's not like they insulate any less than other thin materials. But yeah they are too narrow to make the ideal tiny house.

They are also way too heavy and sturdy, you don't need your tiny house to be able to be able to hold like 100 tonnes on the roof (posts) or 40 tones on the floor.

LarmyOfLone ,

My guess is they are actually shipping these boxes from China.

LarmyOfLone ,

Lol that's the "stacks" from ready player one.

LarmyOfLone ,

I looked into container houses and I'd absolutely love a house that I can move from city to city. Moving without packing shit up. I just wish they weren't as heavy and a bit wider.

I'd also love the idea of "stacks" where you can slot in your container home into a vertical grid. The problem is that you generally want your entry to be on the long side, so you'd need lots of corridors in such a stack.

LarmyOfLone ,

Well I imagine it differently from the movie but I can't quite picture it.

LarmyOfLone ,

Right? It was such a roller coaster ride with rather empty calories. But to be honest I didn't like the book that much either, more like the start of an interesting universe. The first novel in The Culture series wasn't that great either.

LarmyOfLone ,

Just use the duck: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=GUID+Partition+Table :D

LarmyOfLone ,

I was pocking fun by searching for "GUID Partition Table" instead of GPT

LarmyOfLone ,

I'm so glad about FreeTube

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